University of georgia press smollett family biography

          The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett's last published novel and most celebrated work, appeared in June , three months before the author's....

          Tobias Smollett

          Scottish writer and surgeon (1721–1771)

          Tobias George Smollett (bapt.

          Tobias Smollett (b.

        1. Tobias Smollett After Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias.
        2. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett's last published novel and most celebrated work, appeared in June , three months before the author's.
        3. This picaresque tale, first published in , was Tobias Smollett's second novel.
        4. Tobias Smollett, Scotland's First Novelist: new essays in memory of Paul-Gabriel Bouce / ed.

          5. 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish writer and surgeon.[1] He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771),[2] which influenced later generations of British novelists, including Charles Dickens.

          His novels were liberally altered by contemporary printers; an authoritative edition of each was edited by Dr O. M. Brack Jr and others.

          Early life and family

          Smollett was born at Dalquhurn, now part of Renton in present-day West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, and baptised on 19 March 1721 (his birth date is estimated as 3 days previously).[2] He was the fourth son of Archibald Smollett of Bonhill, a judge and landowner, laird of Bonhill, living at Dalquhurn[3] on the River Leven, who died about 1726, when